...Merve Uçar; Emel Güler; Serpil Koçdar Purpose This study aims to investigate the levels of the sense of community among students enrolled in online student communities at Anadolu University Open Education System (OES), as well as their motivations for joining these communities...

... to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this license may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode . Online learning Distance learning Open education MOOCs (massive open online courses) OER (open educational resources) ODL (open and distance learning...

...Jun Xiao; Hong-Zheng Sun-Lin; Hsu-Chen Cheng Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a design of online-merge-offline (OMO) classroom for open education with design principles related to practical issues of teachers’ teaching, students’ learning and schools’ management. Design...

... and physical learning environment. The development and construction of seamless learning space and platform is a new trend of international mobile learning research and practice. So, the purpose of this paper is to build a seamless learning platform of the open education system by expanding and improving...

... further points. First, that Open Universities need to redefine “what constitutes an Open University”, and in particular introduce and support Open Educational Practice; and second, in more detail use Open Educational Resources in its own learning and teaching strategy, rather than propose their use...

... and want to share with others. The main idea behind open educational resources (OER) is providing freely accessible and openly licensed documents, which fits well with the online learning system using SNS. However, the gap between higher education and social network media in relation to shared activities...